Carmela Garritano
Biographic Data
| ID | 79876 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carmela Garritano |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carmela |
| FAMILY NAME | Garritano |
| SIGNATURE | GARRITANO C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9912-8463 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 64 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema
Fueling automobility: Thoughts on Lindsey B. Green-Simms’s Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa
Lindsey Green-Simms’s Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa couples pioneering analyses of canonical West African films and literature, such as Sembene Ousmane’s Xala (1975) and Ama
Living Precariously in the African Postcolony: Debt and Labor Relations in the Films of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
This article argues that Daratt (2006) and Un homme qui crie (2010), two films by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, direct attention toward globalization processes in the African postcolony at the level of the male subject and body and as iterated through masculine techniques of self. It considers the film Daratt as a cinematic reflection on debt relations, shifting the critical discussion from vengeance in the context of the Chadian civil war and toward the…
A Companion to African Cinema
The Materiality of Genre: Analog and Digital Ghosts in Video Movies from Ghana
This article discusses three representative examples of one particular genre, the Ghanaian ghost movie, to look closely at the creation and evolution of the figure of the ghost in analog and digital video environments. The larger aim is to expand our understanding of African movie genres by accounting for their technological and material dimensions. In Ghana, the earliest ghost movies, here represented by Ghost Tears (Socrate Safo, 1992) and Suzz…
The Conscript: A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War
Book Review| April 01 2015 The Conscript: A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War The Conscript: A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War, by Gebreyesus Hailu, translated by Ghirmai Negash. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013; pp. 59. $14.95 paper. Carmela Garritano Carmela Garritano Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2015) 15 (1): 202–205. https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.15.1.0…
African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History
King Ampaw: Traveling by Lorry
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Contesting authenticities: The emergence of local video production in Ghana
In this article I offer a historical reading of the early years of video production in Ghana between roughly 1987 and 1992, a period characterised by radical transformation put in motion by developments generally associated with globalisation. The erosion of state support for filmmaking, coupled with the ready availability of video technology allowed individuals situated outside of the networks of official cultural production, firstly to import a…
Troubled Men and the Women Who Create Havoc: Four Recent Films by West African Filmmakers
In African Cinema: Decolonizing the Gaze, Olivier Barlet describes shift of purpose and technique in recent African filmmaking. African filmmak? ers, he writes, reveal concern now for ideological legitimization than was evident in their early years (138). Unlike the first generation of African filmmakers, who considered themselves part of an emerging Third Word cinema and used film as a tool of revolution, means of political education to be used …
African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Olivier Barlet. African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze. Translated by Chris Turner. London and New York: Zed Books, 2000. Distributed by Palgrave. xii + 315 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. $69.95 Cloth. $29.95 Paper. relationship between the Western gaze and the Other is the main concern of Olivier Barlet's African Cinema: Decolonizing the Gaze. Much like Keyan Tomaselli's Appropriating Images and E. Anne K…
African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History
African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Olivier Barlet. African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze. Translated by Chris Turner. London and New York: Zed Books, 2000. Distributed by Palgrave. xii + 315 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. $69.95 Cloth. $29.95 Paper. relationship between the Western gaze and the Other is the main concern of Olivier Barlet's African Cinema: Decolonizing the Gaze. Much like Keyan Tomaselli's Appropriating Images and E. Anne K…
Contesting authenticities: The emergence of local video production in Ghana
In this article I offer a historical reading of the early years of video production in Ghana between roughly 1987 and 1992, a period characterised by radical transformation put in motion by developments generally associated with globalisation. The erosion of state support for filmmaking, coupled with the ready availability of video technology allowed individuals situated outside of the networks of official cultural production, firstly to import a…
Fueling automobility: Thoughts on Lindsey B. Green-Simms’s Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa
Lindsey Green-Simms’s Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa couples pioneering analyses of canonical West African films and literature, such as Sembene Ousmane’s Xala (1975) and Ama
Troubled Men and the Women Who Create Havoc: Four Recent Films by West African Filmmakers
In African Cinema: Decolonizing the Gaze, Olivier Barlet describes shift of purpose and technique in recent African filmmaking. African filmmak? ers, he writes, reveal concern now for ideological legitimization than was evident in their early years (138). Unlike the first generation of African filmmakers, who considered themselves part of an emerging Third Word cinema and used film as a tool of revolution, means of political education to be used …
Troubled Men and the Women Who Create Havoc: Four Recent Films by West African Filmmakers
In African Cinema: Decolonizing the Gaze, Olivier Barlet describes shift of purpose and technique in recent African filmmaking. African filmmak? ers, he writes, reveal concern now for ideological legitimization than was evident in their early years (138). Unlike the first generation of African filmmakers, who considered themselves part of an emerging Third Word cinema and used film as a tool of revolution, means of political education to be used …
African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze
LITERATURE AND THE ARTS Olivier Barlet. African Cinemas: Decolonizing the Gaze. Translated by Chris Turner. London and New York: Zed Books, 2000. Distributed by Palgrave. xii + 315 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Appendix. Index. $69.95 Cloth. $29.95 Paper. relationship between the Western gaze and the Other is the main concern of Olivier Barlet's African Cinema: Decolonizing the Gaze. Much like Keyan Tomaselli's Appropriating Images and E. Anne K…
Contesting authenticities: The emergence of local video production in Ghana
In this article I offer a historical reading of the early years of video production in Ghana between roughly 1987 and 1992, a period characterised by radical transformation put in motion by developments generally associated with globalisation. The erosion of state support for filmmaking, coupled with the ready availability of video technology allowed individuals situated outside of the networks of official cultural production, firstly to import a…
King Ampaw: Traveling by Lorry
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
African Video Movies and Global Desires: A Ghanaian History
The Conscript: A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War
Book Review| April 01 2015 The Conscript: A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War The Conscript: A Novel of Libya’s Anticolonial War, by Gebreyesus Hailu, translated by Ghirmai Negash. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013; pp. 59. $14.95 paper. Carmela Garritano Carmela Garritano Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Northeast African Studies (2015) 15 (1): 202–205. https://doi.org/10.14321/nortafristud.15.1.0…
The Materiality of Genre: Analog and Digital Ghosts in Video Movies from Ghana
This article discusses three representative examples of one particular genre, the Ghanaian ghost movie, to look closely at the creation and evolution of the figure of the ghost in analog and digital video environments. The larger aim is to expand our understanding of African movie genres by accounting for their technological and material dimensions. In Ghana, the earliest ghost movies, here represented by Ghost Tears (Socrate Safo, 1992) and Suzz…
A Companion to African Cinema
Living Precariously in the African Postcolony: Debt and Labor Relations in the Films of Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
This article argues that Daratt (2006) and Un homme qui crie (2010), two films by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, direct attention toward globalization processes in the African postcolony at the level of the male subject and body and as iterated through masculine techniques of self. It considers the film Daratt as a cinematic reflection on debt relations, shifting the critical discussion from vengeance in the context of the Chadian civil war and toward the…
Fueling automobility: Thoughts on Lindsey B. Green-Simms’s Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa
Lindsey Green-Simms’s Postcolonial Automobility: Car Culture in West Africa couples pioneering analyses of canonical West African films and literature, such as Sembene Ousmane’s Xala (1975) and Ama
Meaninglessness: Time, Rhythm, and the Undead in Postcolonial Cinema
African history and culture studies (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Movie theater (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)